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Backups are among the most critical tasks in IT operations. Yet, in many companies, they are still manually initiated, irregularly checked, or only …
TL;DR This post explains how CLI-based polycrate-cli workflows reliably orchestrate installation and updates. Practical troubleshooting approaches, …
Kubernetes is now considered the standard for running modern applications. The platform offers maximum flexibility, high scalability, and automated …
TL;DR Polycrate enables structured workspaces and streamlined CLI workflows for rapid project initiation. This article demonstrates how to …
TL;DR Polycrate containers enable reproducible CI/CD pipelines from source code to deployment. Through deterministic builds, clear dependencies, …
TL;DR Audit trails, telemetry, and compliance documentation are the cornerstones of traceable IaC workflows. Practical patterns demonstrate how …
TL;DR Polycrate containers enable fine-grained isolation, resource separation, and policy-based security controls in automation runs. This post …
TL;DR Polycrate architecture containerization offers modular runtime environments, reproducible deployments, and clear separation of infrastructure …
TL;DR Transitioning from a pure deployment template stack to a polycrate-based automation platform enables consistent self-service deployments, …
TL;DR Polycrate updates must be versioned, tested, and rolled out securely. Defined version channels, policy-based gateways, and gradual rollouts …
TL;DR Secrets governance in Polycrate GitOps requires clear responsibilities, consistent policy models, and automated rotation. Common pitfalls …
TL;DR Polycrate Deployment Automation enables declarative, version-driven releases in complex microservice stacks. Through idempotent apply …
TL;DR Digital sovereignty in Polycrate is achieved only with integrated governance, policy-as-code, clear data ownership, and comprehensive auditing. …
TL;DR Polycrate enables self-service automation through Platform-as-Code , CI/CD integrations, and a secure self-service portal. Practical workflows …
TL;DR A scalable Polycrate operations model leverages clear standards, automation, and comprehensive observability to reliably operate infrastructure …
TL;DR Policy as Code Polycrate ensures automated policy enforcement and comprehensive auditability. Governance templates standardize RBAC-compliant …
TL;DR Policy as Code in Polycrate ensures consistent governance and transparent auditing in IaC labs. Policies are evaluated before deployment, …
TL;DR Polycrate integrates IaC tests into CI/CD as a gatekeeper. Tests are implemented as static, dynamic, and policy checks; after planning, the …
TL;DR Polycrate IaC Security integrates secrets management, code scanning, and compliance into the IaC workflow. Secrets remain outside the code, …
TL;DR Polycrate GitOps anchors deployments in Git as the source of truth. Automation and drift detection ensure stability, traceability, and …
The Myth of “Finished Kubernetes” “We now have Kubernetes.” Hardly any phrase is uttered more frequently in IT projects—and …
Why the Real Decision Begins Long Before the First Cluster Part 1 of our series “Build or Buy Kubernetes” When discussing the use of …
TL;DR GitOps Polycrate establishes deploy and rollback decisions in pull requests. The source of truth approach ensures clear auditability, …
TL;DR Polycrate Governance combines Policy-as-Code, audit trails, and complete traceability. Central policy catalogs, gate decisions during …
TL;DR Polycrate enables scalable operations through centralized runbooks, Observability , and automated workflows. This post demonstrates how …
TL;DR Polycrate is an architectural pattern that ensures reusability, modularity, and scalability of platforms. It divides core competencies into …
TL;DR This post demonstrates how Polycrate shapes platform operations through automated GitOps workflows. Standardized paths, self-service features, …
TL;DR Polycrate self-service platform engineering enables teams to provision infrastructure, platform services, and applications themselves through a …
TL;DR Polycrate enables lifecycle-oriented infrastructure logic: Policy-as-Code, observability, and automation across all phases of the resource …
TL;DR The Polycrate approach leverages declarative models and strong abstractions to consistently scale platform operations, automation, and …
TL;DR Polycrate offers secure automation through integrated policy management and RBAC. By implementing clear roles, policy-driven decisions, and …
TL;DR Policy-Driven Automation is guided by declarative policies matured through policy engines. Polycrate enables consistent architecture control, …
TL;DR Polycrate platform operations governance means understanding policy management, compliance, and automation as an integrated cycle. Governance …
TL;DR Polycrate Multi-Cloud Governance consolidates policies, security models, and compliance controls across multiple clouds. Key benefits include …
TL;DR Standardized processes and clear roles enable platform operations to scale. Through GitOps, CI/CD, self-service portals, and policy-oriented …
TL;DR GitOps firmly anchors operations in code: The desired state is defined in Git, reconciliation loops keep live systems in sync, and approvals, …
TL;DR Self-service platforms enable developers to deploy quickly and independently, but they require clear governance and strong security mechanisms. …
TL;DR Infrastructure as Code enables consistent platform operating models, traceable changes, and complete audit trails. Through modular IaC …
TL;DR For kubernetes-compliance-audit , organizations need consistent audit trails, clear governance processes, and secure log architectures. Audit …
TL;DR This piece demonstrates how Kubernetes disaster recovery is pragmatically implemented: defined RPO/RTO, cross-region replication, consistent …
TL;DR Zero-Trust is not a single tool but an architectural style: clearly verify identities, restrict privileges, continuously check policies, and …
TL;DR The EU Data Act requires clear governance of data flows, transparent access controls, and auditable paths. Operationally, this means …
The debate over digital sovereignty in Europe is often reduced to the wrong level. As soon as the dependency on American technology companies is …
In the history of medium-sized IT infrastructures and system houses, having one’s own data center was considered an undeniable competitive …
In the history of mid-sized IT infrastructures and system houses, having one’s own data center was considered an undeniable competitive …
TL;DR Digital sovereignty requires cloud independence, avoiding reliance on individual providers. An open platform architecture with portable …
TL;DR A scalable platform requires an identity-driven security architecture: Zero-Trust, granular access control, dynamic secrets management, …
TL;DR Infrastructure as Code is more than automation: it becomes the blueprint of a cloud platform. Standardized IaC patterns enable consistent …
TL;DR GitOps anchors deployments in Git and IaC, automates platform operations, and enhances reproducibility. Through declarative states, drift …
TL;DR An end-to-end observability strategy in Kubernetes combines consistent instrumentation, OpenTelemetry-based data collection, correlated …
Why Digital Sovereignty Needs More Than Open Source Digital sovereignty is one of the most frequently used buzzwords in recent years. Hardly any …
How an Open-Source Project Became the Operating System of the Cloud In June, Kubernetes celebrates its twelfth anniversary. What began in 2014 as an …
Why Platforms Have Become the Actual Security Architecture of Modern Infrastructures In the previous parts of this series, we explored various …
Why Standardization is Not a Limitation but a Security Strategy Few terms are as frequently misunderstood in technical discussions as …
Why Governance Must Be a Feature of the Platform, Not Just a Policy Governance is one of those terms that frequently appear in technical discussions …
Why Secrets Are Not an Infrastructure Problem When discussing the security of modern platforms, the topic of secrets inevitably arises sooner or …
Why Reproducibility is a Security Requirement In recent years, Infrastructure as Code has become one of the most crucial components of modern …
Why the Most Critical Systems in Your Infrastructure Are Often Not Productive In the traditional understanding of IT security, productive systems …
To maximize the security of your container supply chain, automated CVE scanning at the cluster boundary is essential. The combination of registry …
Cloud Native was supposed to solve many problems of traditional enterprise IT. Less rigid systems. Fewer monolithic dependencies. Faster deployments. …
The hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a tangible operational reality in medium-sized …
In technical field service, whether in plant maintenance, mechanical engineering, or large-scale craft operations, every minute counts. When a …
When companies think about IT security, cyberattacks, data loss, or server failures are usually at the forefront. A much more subtle but often …
When analyzing the IT costs of a growing medium-sized enterprise, one almost always encounters the same dynamic: the relentless progression of …
🧠 Editorial I increasingly feel that Europe confuses digital sovereignty with infrastructure folklore. US clouds suddenly become …
In many growing SaaS companies, there is an “invisible productivity killer.” It doesn’t have a technical name but manifests in …
In the traditional IT world, infrastructure was something “handcrafted.” An administrator would install servers, configure databases, and …
Every SaaS marketing manager dreams of it: A prospect lands on the website, clicks “Free Trial,” and can start immediately. But in the …
Have you ever used an application that froze for 10 seconds when you clicked “Export” or “Save”? In the world of modern SaaS, …
For many SaaS providers, compliance checks by a new major client or an official audit (like ISO 27001 ) or SOC2 are daunting projects. Logs are …
“It worked on my machine!” This phrase is a classic in software development. However, the real problem usually lies a step further: in …
A live event often ends in a digital mess: massive raw files in the highest quality are left on the servers. However, the client doesn’t want …
In traditional infrastructures, monitoring was a manual process: a new server was rented, an application installed, and then manually added to the …
It’s a classic in IT operations: A critical service suddenly becomes unreachable, browsers display warning messages, and customers escalate. …
With the enactment of NIS-2 and the tightening of national security laws (such as BSIG 2.0), the playing field for KRITIS operators has changed. It …
A multi-region architecture is only as strong as the consistency of its locations. If Region A uses a different configuration, security patches, or …
How Staleness Mitigation Finally Makes Controllers More Deterministic Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating containerized …
In the world of data engineering, Apache Airflow is the undisputed champion for workflow orchestration. However, with success come scaling pains: …
Transforming Mature Ansible Structures into a Scalable Polycrate Platform Architecture 1. The Strategic Necessity of Transformation In modern …
Operating a DBaaS platform presents a mathematical trap: If the operational effort per database increases linearly with the number of customers, the …
In the world of Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS), having a sophisticated high availability concept in the drawer is not enough. Auditors and …
GitOps Platform Independence through Polycrate Automation Understanding the automation layer that creates a coherent, reproducible deployment pipeline …
TL;DR Polycrate-driven automation offers cross-architecture, declarative infrastructure control that enables platform independence. Through a central …
In industrial data processing, ETL processes (Extract, Transform, Load) are the nervous system of production. When sensor data from plants worldwide …
TL;DR The Polycrate API transforms individual workspaces into a team platform: all workspaces, action runs, and SSH sessions are centrally …
TL;DR Polycrate not only logs Action Runs (Ansible playbooks) but also SSH sessions, workspace syncs, and CLI instances – all centrally accessible via …
TL;DR Polycrate automatically captures every polycrate run execution as an “Action Run” – including block, action, exit code, timestamp, …
In many technical service teams, there is a dangerous pragmatism when it comes to communication: When things need to move quickly on-site or at the …
TL;DR A well-named, clearly structured Polycrate workspace is half the battle: a consistent name (e.g., acme-corp-automation) and a simple directory …
TL;DR Polycrate is more than just a CLI tool: With PolyHub, an API platform, and MCP, it forms an ecosystem where reusable automation blocks, …
Editorial This week feels like a reality check for multiple narratives at once. AI is suddenly not just innovation, but a cost issue. Digital …
In customer service and technical support, the ticketing system is the central nervous system. Many companies instinctively turn to market leaders …
In the world of Artificial Intelligence, there’s a phenomenon we often refer to as the “Wall of Confusion.” On one side is the data …
TL;DR Plain Ansible is a powerful tool for ad-hoc automation, quick scripts, and simple setups – but teams quickly hit limits with dependencies, …
TL;DR The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard: AI clients talk to helper programs over stdin/stdout (stdio) using JSON-RPC. polycrate mcp …
TL;DR In many enterprise organizations, each team builds its own Ansible environment—without clear versioning, without central reuse, without …
TL;DR You can centrally manage hundreds of Raspberry Pis and other edge nodes with Ansible—without an agent on the devices, just via SSH. Polycrate …
TL;DR Manual compliance checking with Excel lists is slow, error-prone, and hardly reproducible – with Policy as Code, you describe your requirements …
TL;DR In this post, you’ll create a complete Polycrate block for your own Kubernetes app – including block.poly, an Ansible playbook, and three …
TL;DR PolyHub functions like an app store for infrastructure: Ready-made ayedo blocks for Kubernetes apps (nginx, cert-manager, external-dns, and many …
TL;DR In this post, we build a Polycrate workspace that manages on-premise servers and Azure VMs in a shared inventory—including Resource Groups, …
TL;DR Ansible can fully automate Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) via the azure.azcollection: users, groups, app registrations, and even …
TL;DR Most environments are hybrid: Windows servers for AD, file services, and specialized applications, Linux for web, databases, and automation – …
TL;DR Declarative operating models provide companies with an effective method for automating and standardizing complex infrastructure management …
TL;DR You can implement standardized Windows software deployment without expensive SCCM infrastructure – using Chocolatey as a package manager and …
TL;DR Active Directory changes via GUI or non-versioned PowerShell scripts are error-prone, hard to track, and not very collaborative. With Ansible …
Why the Supposed Alternative is Already a Reality In many companies, Microsoft 365 is still considered the standard for digital collaboration. Teams …
TL;DR Set up WinRM properly once with HTTPS, certificate, and firewall rules, and you’ll have a stable foundation for Ansible automation on …
TL;DR You build a reusable Polycrate workflow that automatically executes backup → update → verify on your Linux servers – including rollback via …
TL;DR Managing a single server with Ansible is quick and easy, but once you add 10, 50, or 200 hosts, the inventory becomes a critical scaling factor. …
In a perfect world, your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) repository is the absolute “Source of Truth.” Every change to load balancers, DNS …
Why Stable Interfaces Are Crucial for the Ecosystem Kubernetes is now much more than a Container orchestrator. A vast ecosystem has developed around …
TL;DR You build a reusable Polycrate block that automates the deployment of Nginx and Let’s Encrypt (via community.general.certbot) on a Linux …
TL;DR With Polycrate, you create a single inventory.yml in the workspace root to centrally manage all Linux servers—without needing your own Ansible …
TL;DR Polycrate structures Ansible automation into three building blocks: Blocks, Actions, and Workspaces – eliminating the classic playbook sprawl …
TL;DR Install Polycrate with a single curl command – no pip, no virtualenv, no local Ansible installation required. Initialize a workspace, understand …
TL;DR Ansible is a strong foundation: agentless, idempotent, human-readable YAML, and a vast module ecosystem make it the de facto standard for …
Why Digital Sovereignty is Less Radical Than Many Believe Geopolitical tensions, extraterritorial laws, sanction regimes – all these have long been …
Why the Open-Source Technology is More Than Just Container Orchestration When digital sovereignty is discussed today, one name almost always comes …
Until recently, infrastructure automation was reactive: when CPU usage exceeded 80%, Kubernetes would start a new pod (autoscaling). This is …
Public administration has a massive image problem among IT talents. Young Cloud Architects and DevOps Engineers often associate the public sector …
In a highly automated logistics center, time is the most critical currency. When an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) approaches an intersection or a …
For MedTech companies and developers of Digital Health Applications (DiGAs), the path to market is not a sprint but a hurdle race through regulatory …
TL;DR Kubernetes is permissive by default: it allows developers almost anything, including insecure configurations (e.g., running containers as …
In many retail companies, an ERP system that has evolved over decades forms the backbone of IT. These systems are stable and proven, but were …
Retail is faster than ever today. A new trend on social media, a sudden strategic shift by the competition, or the introduction of a new payment …
Considering Real Observability Needs Observability determines how well systems can be understood, operated, and evolved. It is not an add-on for …
Identity Management as a Control Instrument or Open Infrastructure Identity management is far more than just login and user administration. It …
Pipeline Orchestration or GitOps as an Operational Model CI/CD is often treated as a tool question: Which pipeline, which runner, which service? In …
Monitoring as a Cloud Function or as an Open Observability Layer Monitoring and Observability have long surpassed being mere operational tools. They …
Identity as a Service or as Infrastructure Azure Entra ID and Keycloak address the same core issue: managing identities, controlling access, and …
Observability as a Service or as Your Own Infrastructure Azure Monitor and Loki take two fundamentally different approaches to monitoring and logging. …
TL;DR Kubernetes clusters should not be managed manually or with fragile scripts. While AWS CodePipeline tries to enforce deployments through external …
The classic SaaS model is simple: one cloud, one architecture, all customers share the resources. However, as a SaaS provider becomes more successful …
The promise of the cloud has always been flexibility. Yet, the reality in many IT departments is different: Vendor Lock-in. Those who build their …
Operating a modern IT infrastructure today often feels like being a mechanic who needs a different workshop for every screw. We use Terraform for …
TL;DR Encryption is mandatory, but managing it is often a nightmare. While AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) offers free certificates, they are …
In 2026, compliance is no longer a “paper tiger.” With regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act or certifications such as ISO 27001 and …
The grace period for cybersecurity in the industry is coming to an end. With the new EU directive NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive), …
TL;DR Polycrate is an Ansible-based framework for deployment automation that containerizes all necessary tools, enabling reproducible deployments …
TL;DR GitLab CI/CD is much more than a build tool: When used correctly, it becomes the central backbone of your delivery process – from commit to …
TL;DR Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that allows you to define security and operational policies directly as YAML and enforce them …
TL;DR Deterministic security checks in the cloud-native environment are based on three pillars: Policy as Code, automated CVE scanning, and SBOM …
GitHub will migrate its entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure within the next 24 months. This information comes from internal documents reported …
Title: OpenAI for Germany – Digital Sovereignty with Azure as the Foundation? Markdown-Content: On September 24, 2025, SAP and OpenAI announced a new …
In industries like manufacturing, finance, or critical infrastructures, automation is not a “nice-to-have” but a mandatory necessity. …
On October 14, 2025, regular support for Windows 10 will end. What initially appears to many IT departments as a manageable maintenance date reveals …
Cloud infrastructure has its justification. Scalability, automation, and globalization of IT resources are now standard. Technically, the major …
The Forgotten Vulnerability in Your CI/CD Pipelines: The Registry Everyone talks about build pipelines, deployment automation, GitOps, blue/green …
Technological Independence Begins in the Data Center: Why We Rely on European Network Technology Digital sovereignty doesn’t start with legal …
Digital transformation is no longer a thing of the future – it is a reality. It affects not only e-commerce or digital tools in the office but has …
Automation must become manageable again. At ayedo, we are building a framework with Polycrate that brings order to the chaos of complex IT …
Digital sovereignty doesn’t end with tool selection or architecture. It only reaches its full potential when operations are efficient, secure, …
ArgoCD and Flux are both tools used for Continuous Deployment (CD) and GitOps workflows in Kubernetes clusters. They automate the deployment of …
The long-awaited day has arrived: HostProcess containers, the Windows counterpart to Linux privileged containers, are finally generally available in …
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) supports DevOps best practices by facilitating the creation of repeatable infrastructure environments using a declarative …
Kubernetes v1.22 introduced an exciting new alpha feature for clusters with Windows nodes: HostProcess Containers. HostProcess Containers extend the …